Version control doesn't need to be restricted to code and builds. In my previous startup we revisioned all of our hardware schematics, product manuals, BOMs, e

Version control doesn't need to be restricted to code and builds. In my previous startup we revisioned all of our hardware schematics, product manuals, BOMs, etc. Most of it was binary data, so we didn't gain much from diffing. But we had a process in place, required for most forms of documentation control. And it worked exceptionally well (with the obvious caveat two people couldn't work on the same file at the same). Being able to check out just the component you needed to work on was great. git absolutely would have fallen apart in this case and dropping version control wasn't an option.